fftw3: License and Copyright

 
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 FFTW is Copyright (C) 2003, 2007-11 Matteo Frigo, Copyright (C) 2003,
 2007-11 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 
    FFTW is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
 Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
 option) any later version.
 
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
 Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA You can
 also find the GPL on the GNU web site
 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html).
 
    In addition, we kindly ask you to acknowledge FFTW and its authors in
 any program or publication in which you use FFTW. (You are not
 _required_ to do so; it is up to your common sense to decide whether you
 want to comply with this request or not.)  For general publications, we
 suggest referencing: Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson, "The design and
 implementation of FFTW3," Proc.  IEEE 93 (2), 216-231 (2005).
 
    Non-free versions of FFTW are available under terms different from
 those of the General Public License.  (e.g.  they do not require you to
 accompany any object code using FFTW with the corresponding source
 code.)  For these alternative terms you must purchase a license from
 MIT's Technology Licensing Office.  Users interested in such a license
 should contact us (<fftw@fftw.org>) for more information.